News And Views From The World Of F1

With the delayed opening of the 2011 season only a few days away it is time for us to make our full season predictions once again. For a group of dedicated and opinionated fans we didn’t do too well last year. Only Mark and Carrot made predictions as Euan was yet to join the team [...]

Part two concerns the midfield of Formula 1, those teams hoping for a good day to luck into a podium and those desperately hoping not to slip to the back of the field. In 2010 the midfield consisted of four distinct teams that ran between the three new teams at the back of the field [...]

1 race, 4 contenders, 24 points. That’s all that’s left in the battle for the 2010 Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship after Red Bull put in a dominant performance in Brazil to force the fight to continue to the final race of the year. Red Bull were supreme at this track, capitalising on the pack [...]

Carrot’s Predictions Brazilian Grand Prix 2010 Winner – Mark Webber. Brazilian Grand Prix 2010 Pole Position – Sebastian Vettel. Brazilian Grand Prix 2010 Fastest Lap – Mark Webber. Even with fuel in the Red Bull is still the class of the field and after the double DNF of Korea the team will be looking to [...]

Some days it all goes wrong, no matter what you do. Some days it all goes right, luck falls in your favour, the months of hard work comes good at the right time and on those days you can laugh. Fernando Alonso might have taken it a bit far by cackling like a cartoon villain, [...]

A 1-2 in qualifying and the race has Red Bull extend their lead at the top of both championships after a very tiring morning for European fans. After heavy rain yesterday caused qualifying to be postponed to this morning, teams and drivers had it all to do in one day and fans had to be [...]

Sauber have replaced driver Pedro de la Rosa with the former BMW Sauber driver and Mercedes test driver Nick Heidfeld. This comes after a raft of speculation that came out after the Italian Grand Prix. 39 year-old de la Rosa has been replaced after only scoring 6 points in 14 races this season, compared to [...]

With three out of the five championship contenders failing to score at this race, Lewis Hamilton came back after mechanical failure in Hungary to take victory and the lead of the championship in Belgium. A battle of attrition emerged at Spa with a mixture of changeable conditions and race incidents claiming the races of Jenson [...]

Carrot’s Predictions Hungarian Grand Prix 2010 Winner – Mark Webber. The Aussie is slightly faster on the prime tyre than his team mate and we all saw his pace in Monaco which is the nearest in track profile to the Hungaroring. However if the weather turns to rain, as is forecast, you’ve got to keep [...]

A podium of number two drivers, if in car number as in Hamilton’s case, or in speculated team status as with Webber and Rosberg. The 2010 British Grand Prix proved eventful and, with a great deal of off-track politics, was certainly newsworthy. After taking Vettel in the first hundred metres, Webber led to the flag [...]